Type With Your Brain — Like Stephen Hawking 64
Diggester writes that a group of researchers from Universiteit Maastricht's Faculty of Psychology & Neuroscience Department of Neurocognition
"have invented a system that translates thoughts into letters. This really is an incredible breakthrough for any type of handicap, from serious motor impairment to debilitating speech. The system has been in real-world testing and is an extraordinary success. The patients are set up to look at a screen of the alphabet, thinking about each letter for a period of time; they should be able to think-type in real time. While it is not near the speed of actual typing, it is the only program of its kind and can only get better." "Of its kind" being relative, reader cylonlover writes "Tech startup Neurovigil announced last April that Stephen Hawking was testing the potential of its iBrain device to allow the astrophysicist to communicate through brainwaves alone. Next week Professor Hawking and iBrain inventor, Dr Philip Low from Stanford University, present their findings at the Francis Crick Memorial Conference in Cambridge, England. In anticipation, Gizmag spoke to Dr Low about the potential applications of the iBrain."
Prehaps farster? (Score:5, Funny)
>> While it is not near the speed of actual typing,
Ubviously you haben"t seem us type.
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Ubviously you haben't seem us type.
Their, FTFU
You'll need a huge wheelchair (Score:4, Informative)
That Maastricht discovery is based on an fMRI scanner. AFAIK these scanners are hugely expensive as well as hugely huge. That kind of limits the usefulness in the near future.
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I've looked on all online shopping sites, but none has any to sale.
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And don't forget: I'm typing with my brain right now. I've been typing with my brain for years, and so have lots of other people.
As a matter of interest, if you aren't typing with your brain, what are you typing with? Your liver? Your kidneys?
What I haven't been doing is "using a few million dollars of highly specialized gear to type without using my hands", which is what this story is actually about, along with all these other ridiculous "using ONLY your brain" claims written by people who seem not to
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Chuck Norris types with million dollar machines...
Killiling machines!
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I do not type with my fingers.
He who types with his fingers has forgotten the face of his father.
I type with my mind.
I do not troll with my fingers.
He who trolls with his fingers has forgotten the face of his father.
I troll with the lulz.
I do not argue over the internet with my rage.
He who argues over the internet with his rage has forgotten the face of his father.
I argue over the internet with my stubbornness.
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As a matter of interest, if you aren't typing with your brain, what are you typing with? Your liver? Your kidneys?
Your fingers.
No, you don't sound as smart as you thought you would.
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As a matter of interest, if you aren't typing with your brain, what are you typing with?
haven't read many youtube comments have you? it is quite clear that their brains were not involved in the process at all.
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The physics involved are slightly different.
Obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
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I honestly read that as Reginald Perrin...
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01387/Reginald_Perrin_1387994c.jpg [telegraph.co.uk]
Great source of randomness! (Score:1)
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
I am worried... (Score:1)
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Do you typically think in letters?
Great Idea . . . (Score:3)
Terrible name.
new name (Score:4, Interesting)
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I think they should not call it iBrain because the "i" naming scheme is a douchy hipster trend that is plaguing the tech industry.
Stephen Hawking doesn't type with his brain (Score:5, Informative)
Instead, his computer screen has a cursor moving across a QWERTY grid. When it's on the letter/word he wants, a very faint twitch from his cheek, which is the equivalent of a mouseclick, selects the letter/word.
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Replying to myself to add info. The cheek movement is captured by a tiny camera hanging from his glasses. Furthermore, I never saw electrodes attached to his head, which proves his brilliant brain isn't used for typing.
Re:Stephen Hawking doesn't type with his brain (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Why should I like him? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Why should I like him? (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah, I don't see how anybody can talk shit about a man who is doing Carl Sagan's job just by twitching his cheek...
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Because Hawkins... maintains a media presence
Not enough of one for people to get his name right, apparently.
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And there I go again, adding an extra s. What is it about that name that makes me want to unconsciously turn it to possessive form?
A small hint: For a possessive form, add an apostrophe in front of the final 's'. Something made you unconsciously omit it.
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Because despite being all but locked-in, the man found a field he liked to work in, rose to arguably the single most respected teaching position in the world, and managed to not only gain an exceedingly rare degree of fame for a scientist, but to use that fame to raise respect for science itself. That's freaking badass. He's one of the best role models out there for people learning to adapt to some of the worst curveballs life can throw at you.
I am worried too... (Score:1)
iHate (Score:2)
iThink iWill iGouge MiSelf.
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um a "u" in front of a word usually indicants micro. so you are saying he is only a little lame what you wanted is klame or Mlame, although k is also indicative of kde so yeah Mlame.
Brain in a Box(tm) (Score:2)
It will never catch on. (Score:5, Funny)
Not if it requires people to use their brains.
Scanning Thoughts (Score:1)
I wonder about other planned uses for this device....think how valuable it would be during interrogations :-(
Dangers? (Score:2)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Score:3)
This was a book, written by a man with a stroke. All he had control over was his blinking, so he had to blink for every letter. It was estimated that it took 200,000 blinks [wikipedia.org].
For some reason, when I read the story title, I thought about this guy... there are many people that would benefit from this tech.
Others will 3 this! (Score:2)
Colleagues, friends, parents, etc. hate my loud clicky keyboards since I type fast and loud like a machine gun (what my college friend said when I was in college). See here [aqfl.net] for the details and a poll. :( If this brain typing can be fast or faster than what I can think, then I will use it! Wait, I don't have a brain. :P
O'Brien (Score:2)
'nuff said
http://www.google.com/search?q=o'brien+ds9&tbm=isch [google.com]
Thoughts into WORDS (Score:1)
Almost thoughts into words (Score:2)
with this:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/04/03/18/0132222/nasa-develops-tech-to-hear-words-not-yet-spoken [slashdot.org]
Unfortunately, the original article is gone. Time to search the WABACK machine.
I can see it now... (Score:1)
The Downside (Score:2)